Musicians

Scope and Contents Lecture notes, transcriptions of lectures and interviews, and over three hundred audio recordings associated with a University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts course, "Black Experience in the Arts." The course's instructors included professors James Eversole, Hale Smith, Edward O'Connor, Leon Bailey, and Carlton Molette. The records, particularly the audio recordings, document the contributions of black artists of the time period and the power of art as a mechanism for social change and...

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Ruth Daigon, an award-winning American poet, singer and editor, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her career in music as a soprano brought her into contact with New York Pro Musica, appearances on Columbia recordings, CBS-TV, recitals and tours. Ruth Daigon’s poetry has been published in hundreds of literary magazines and in several anthologies. Ruth Daigon died on February 17, 2010.

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Scrap book containing Photographs, Show Fliers, Guitar Pick, Newspaper Ads, and Contracts relating to Gregg Won's band StarFX.

Scope and content From the Collection:

Collection contains emphemeral items of the punk and hardcore scene in Connecticut from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. Materials range from textual graphic materials in zine form, stickers, photographs, show flyers, and set lists to audio recordings on cassette, vinyl and compact disc. Additionaly the collection contains 3 dimensional objects such as teeshirts, buttons and a shoe.

Scope and content From the Collection:

Collection contains emphemeral items of the punk and hardcore scene in Connecticut from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. Materials range from textual graphic materials in zine form, stickers, photographs, show flyers, and set lists to audio recordings on cassette, vinyl and compact disc. Additionaly the collection contains 3 dimensional objects such as teeshirts, buttons and a shoe.

Scope and content From the Collection:

Collection contains emphemeral items of the punk and hardcore scene in Connecticut from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. Materials range from textual graphic materials in zine form, stickers, photographs, show flyers, and set lists to audio recordings on cassette, vinyl and compact disc. Additionaly the collection contains 3 dimensional objects such as teeshirts, buttons and a shoe.

Scope and content From the Collection:

Collection contains emphemeral items of the punk and hardcore scene in Connecticut from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. Materials range from textual graphic materials in zine form, stickers, photographs, show flyers, and set lists to audio recordings on cassette, vinyl and compact disc. Additionaly the collection contains 3 dimensional objects such as teeshirts, buttons and a shoe.

Scope and content From the Collection:

Collection contains emphemeral items of the punk and hardcore scene in Connecticut from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. Materials range from textual graphic materials in zine form, stickers, photographs, show flyers, and set lists to audio recordings on cassette, vinyl and compact disc. Additionaly the collection contains 3 dimensional objects such as teeshirts, buttons and a shoe.

Scope and content From the Collection:

Collection contains emphemeral items of the punk and hardcore scene in Connecticut from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. Materials range from textual graphic materials in zine form, stickers, photographs, show flyers, and set lists to audio recordings on cassette, vinyl and compact disc. Additionaly the collection contains 3 dimensional objects such as teeshirts, buttons and a shoe.

Scope and Contents Professor Edward O'Connor delivered 2 lectures. 1st was 12/2/1986 (2015-0002/RR238) and the 2nd was 2/2/1988 (2015-0002/RR239). RR 238 Leon Bailey makes several class related announcements before introducing Edward O'Connor who is speaking instead of the scheduled musician Solomon Galory (sp?). O'Connor provides a summation of the speakers over the last seventeen years of this class entitled "Current Issues and Views on the Black Experience in Music." RR 239 Edward O'Connor...

Scope and Contents Guitarist Roland Prince lectured on 9/14/1976 (2015-0002/RR250). Prince is a guitarist from Antigua, who after moving to Toronto in the mide-1960s, relocated to New York City in 1969. During the late-1960s to the mid-1970s, Prince performed with Brother Jack McDuff, Billy Mitchell, Wynton Kelly, Art Blakey, Stanley Turrentine, and Jimmy Smith before leading his own trio. Prince toured Europe and Japan, then continued making records with Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, James Moody, Frank Foster, and...

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A graduate of the University of Connecticut (B.A., 1951) and the University of Texas--Austin (M.A.), had a long career in all aspects of music and musicology, including teaching, writing, performing, conducting and directing.